![]() ![]() He also wants to challenge the Roman view that civil war, which the Romans regarded with horror, is a mode of human conflict that cannot be eliminated: ‘We should be cautious about assuming civil war is an inevitable part of our makeup – a feature, not a bug, in the software that makes us human. His motives for engaging in this conceptual investigation are not simply analytical. Indeed, this is the most striking change in patterns of human conflict for centuries … Since 1989, barely 5 per cent of the world’s wars have taken place between states.’Īrmitage’s goal, in this wide-ranging and informative book, is to examine the history of the idea of civil war as it has developed from the Romans until the present time. ‘The three hundred years between 16 constituted an era of war between states the last sixty years appear to be an age of war within states. ![]() ‘Our own time demands an unblinking encounter with civil war,’ writes David Armitage, a professor of history at Harvard. ![]()
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